So he is allowed to throw the ball back as there isn't a law against is but probably should be? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60641065
Heard someone say today that Pozzo wasn’t there - Anyone heard anything? Supposedly the same against Palace.
For me, that's one of our best home performance in recent times. Sent from my TECNO P701 using Tapatalk
Whilst I understand the sentiment, even with the utterly terrible decisions in recent years, it’d be better for the future of the football club to have an engaged, if currently idiotic owner, as opposed to a disengaged idiotic owner whilst we sail towards relegation. That way at least he’d have to watch Roy’s ***** football with us.
There was not enough contact to constitute a foul and the way Cucho rolled around grabbing a his face when it was just a hand on the neck was quite frankly embarrassing.
I remember Munoz and Ranieri being told a couple of times this season to stay in their technical areas. Arteta runs 10 yards out of his to create a goal for his team and has a little joke with the fourth official about it. This league stinks.
Arsenal are a traditional top six club. They are allowed to do these things. Everyone will have a laugh about it. Not sure what the problem is. It’s in the EPL rule book. Watford there to make up the numbers and are nothing more than a footnote.
If we had a defence that hadn’t conceded 50 goals this season, I might have been a bit more bothered by it. Like I was when Deeney was ridiculously sent off against them years ago.
That quote from the fourth official. What was it “Mikel, I don’t think you’re allowed to do that”? Isn’t he one of the people enforcing the rules and in particular the rule about managers remaining in their technical areas? It’s like a policeman passively admonishing a bank robber as he helps him load the dosh into the boot of the getaway car. But I agree with @GoingDown i don’t think the game was really close enough to merit a profound sense of injustice (eg like with Deeney’s sending off or the Sarr incident in the reverse fixture this season). I think what irritates me most is Arsenal have this absurd persecution complex with referees and yet some obvious issue or error (and to be fair it is always something refreshingly different like this or not giving the ball back).
At QPR yesterday Cardiff had exactly the same setup, until a fan leant over and grabbed the towel, which was then thrown around the fans. Didn't stop them losing though.
I don't know what you call this quality. Flair? Class? But we lack so much of it and so often as well. Abdi had it, Capoue had it a bit, Deuolofeu definitely had it but now we lack it so much, Dennis is flashy rather than classy, even Sarr, he's not really the flair type he's just quick. It's what our midfield is desperately lacking and has been for a while.
Watching MOTD to see what I missed from my view in The Rookery, did the Dennis goal go to VAR or is that for big clubs only? I wanted to see the lines looked like Cedric might be level. Why did Cathcart just stand there and like fall down for Odegaards? Surely just throw yourself at it John Terry style? Utterly baffling what the hell is that defending? Did nobody on that pitch shout man on to Cleverley? Before Louza's passed it off the pitch, Clevs is in midfield in that whole time, Odegarrd has ran past him, played a part in the goal, even Joao Pedro has ran past Cleverley yet former England international Tom has barely moved 10 yards when he's a centre mid? What the **** is that, yet again? I'm so baffled by some of these basic footballing errors. Does nobody tell our YouTube star Ben Foster that goals have corners? Why does he repeatedly stand there miles off his line and watch them sail past? Partey nearly punished him then Martinelli did. You simply cannot fix these things, it's idiotic in game footballing decisions.
Guess so - all goals or offside are checked. Shame he didn't finish like that when 2 yards from goal and onside.
I doubt City, Liverpool or Chelsea will see it that way - not to mention the other fixtures. More of HB desperately clutching at straws.
Dennis was well offside in terms of not needing the lines at least. It went to Var but it was clear from one angle he was off, so no need for any lines.
I really didn’t understand why Cleverley lasted so long on the pitch and wasn’t replaced by Kucka, for that reason.
Footballers make errors. We made a few at Man Utd but had the run of luck and kept a clean sheet. I thoight we actually played better yesterday. Arsenal keeper made a few errors but got a little lucky. So yes, Louza should have done better and Cleverly and one of our old managers said he hated it when keepers don't at least try to dive. They were good finishes though to be fair. My brother once said he thought no penalty should ever be missed, because professional footballers are paid to kick a football properly and should therefore always score a penalty which is a simple kick from 12yds.. He also thought that keepers should save more penalties, because they were professional footballers who should be able to see which way the ball is going more often and make a suitable dive. Truth is, sometimes they get it right, other times they dont. Arsenal asked us enough times to get it right 3 times. You can't hit that 100% number like my brother thought. Kamara either got ran ragged by Saka or did really well 95% of the time dependant on your perception.
I'm still baffled about what happened to Ranieri. Those stepped improvements in the Chelsea, City, Leicester games, the wins against Man United and Everton and then, all progress utterly disappearing from the Brentford game onwards with a notable abandonment of a plan which was seemingly working. An encouraging loss to Chelsea at that stage was something to build on. An encouraging loss to Arsenal yesterday too little too late.
We were crying out for that sort of sub mid way through the first half, even if just to rattle Xhaka who is easy to get at. Even bringing Kalu on for at least half hour for Cleverley. Great servant but his legs have fully gone.
Same here. Was like we had a different manager. Not sure whether teams cottoned on to our plan, nullified it, and CR had no alternative? But even then the intensity of the pressing just completely disappeared.
It wasn't forceful enough to make Cucho roll around in agony, and it hit his neck rather than his face - but White clearly deliberately swung his elbow and it was his elbow which made contact with Cucho - if it had hit Cucho's face then letter of the law it should have been considered as a potential red card offence.
It's likely we will never find out, but that point in the season, I genuinely thought we'd be fine. We had that run of winnable games coming up and based on performances, looked like we would win most of them. As it turned out we didn't.
